Don't Scapegoat Greece!

It's time for Greece to stand up for
itself. No, not against the waves of traumatized refugees that are besieging
its incredibly long and unfence-able coastline, but against a Germanic-led
initiative to label the tortured country as a scapegoat in the Syrian crisis.

Imagine you live in an apartment
building surrounded by a tent city. You can only afford a ground floor unit,
which is vulnerable through a myriad of glass windows and doors. Your corrupt
leaders left the building years ago, taking their ill-gotten gains with them to
the Caymans or Switzerland, so you, who never saw or spent that money, can
barely afford to eat, much less, pay for a guard or for bars for the doors and
windows. The war of austerity has already depleted your savings, and is leading
your own people to starvation, homelessness, and suicide.

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Now, imagine the fat cats in the
military-security-oil/gas-industrial complex on the other side of the 'river'
fomenting chaos in the Middle East to feed their swollen coffers; actors who've
made a devil's alliance with power-players seeking to expand their influence in
the Anatolian war zones, such as Erdogan's Turkey, Wahhabist Saudi Arabia, and
Netanyahu's Israel. Add in the crew that's currently living in the penthouse of
your apartment building, Angela and her friends who are looking for a growing
labor pool, tax base, foreign aid, and obeisance to the 'divide and conquer'
strategy now being plotted to undermine Europe and the euro.

Finally, imagine thousands upon
thousands of fat cat-created refugees are now descending on your apartment
building, breaking into your home and taking the last breadcrumbs from your
mouth.

Shouldn't Angela and the "landlords"
mount a "federal" emergency intervention to come and help you address
this human hurricane for which you are blameless? Shouldn't they help with
resources, human and financial to help you both protect your home and offer
humanitarian aid as the refugees are repatriated or relocated in the countries
that are responsible the Syrian chaos? Why are you being made a scapegoat for
the years of Angelic starvation that have made you so weak you can barely
stand, much less carry out the solo security guard function that the penthouse
is demanding?

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The EU, which couldn't find
resources to help a torched Greece regain its human dignity and European
footing, gave 3 BILLION dollars to Erdogan's Turkey to stop the flow of
refugees. And yet, Turkey, a major player in the Syrian battle, has continued
to allow thousands of refugees to "escape" from its coastlines with
nary a cork in the "leak". (I won't mention Turkey's history of land
grabs and ethnic cleansing against Armenians, Greeks, and Kurds.) I'll just say
that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and others near and far have caused this mess--don't
take the EU's money and dump the refugees onto Greece.

Meanwhile, the Greek people are being
flooded with a human tragedy from the sea, and an inhuman tragedy from
Brussels, which continues to impose pension and salary cuts on the poor and
working class while sharing champagne with those who stole Greece's funds. And
now, instead of coming down the stairs to Greece's rescue, the EU, and former
SSRs that owe a debt to Greece, are locking their doors and blaming Greece for
not falling on their swords for the corrupt EU.

No. No! It's time for Greece to
stand up and shout that this must cease. The refugees are an EU problem,
not a Greek one, and EVERYONE in the EU needs to contribute, humanly and
financially to the solution. If fences are put up and borders are closed, the
EU needs to "build" and enforce those borders in the waters between
Greece and Turkey, not in the mountains between Greece and the former
Yugoslavia. Funding to Turkey, a fascist proto-empire under Erdogan, must stop
immediately, and those funds must be used to help Greece, Italy, and other
countries affected by the crisis. Scapegoating Greece must end
immediately--Greece's inclusion in the Schengen pact must be maintained, and
this brutal and unjust criticism of an assaulted country must end. The 300 are
bleeding and Thermopylae must not be an expectation in 2016.

And, finally, let's put the blame
for this tragedy where it belongs. There are plenty of candidates, across
rivers, seas, and ponds. One place where there should be no blame is a country
that needs to reclaim its heroism, even if it means speaking truth to the
powers that are.